What is the value of the State?

[Steven Schear]

As I mentioned, cosmology is another field whose theories also can never be
conclusively proven and despite massive consensus will remain just that:
only opinion. Here Hawking et al fume at those opposing one of their
cherished theories and the unmitigated gaul to play the Scientific Method
"card".

https://www.sciencealert.com/stephen-hawking-and-32-top-physicists-just-signed-a-heated-letter-on-the-origin-of-the-universe

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On May 13, 2017 7:46 AM, "Steven Schear" <schear.steve at gmail.com> wrote:

> Michael Crichton's famous lecture drops the mike on consensus vs. science
> and should be required reading for anyone with an open mind on this topic.
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> http://www.burtonsys.com/climate/Aliens_Cause_Global_Warming
> _by_Michael_Crichton.html
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> Warrant Canary creator
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> On May 13, 2017 4:51 AM, "Zenaan Harkness" <zen at freedbms.net> wrote:
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>> On Sat, May 13, 2017 at 08:27:43PM +1000, James A. Donald wrote:
>> > If you have read the climategate files, you will know that the new
>> > scientific method, the method of official science, is to determine
>> > the truth by consensus, then look for evidence to support that
>> > official truth, while ignoring or suppressing any contrary
>> > evidence, and if evidence cannot be found to support official
>> > truth, to just make the evidence up.
>>
>> This last bit "make the evidence up" is done with "scientific" models
>> - often retrospective data curve fitting - and this is the problem
>> they (govt paid "Scientist"s) have at the moment, their nice hockey
>> stick curves (from the 1980s?) were modelled perfectly for the data,
>> to fit the desired "scientific" outcome, and now the new data doesn't
>> fit the desired hockey stick outcome, so ridiculous "scientific"
>> explanations are trotted out, from "a global pause in global warming"
>> to "important data points not previously included in the model" and
>> other hogwash pseudo-"science" designed to regenerate the hockey
>> stick.
>>
>> It's political bullshit, not science. They know it. We know. Anyone
>> self respecting adherent to the actual scientific method knows it.
>> But a lot of propaganda to the contrary of the scientific methods is
>> identifying religious nuts to the discerning, which from one view is
>> a public service - just not worth anywhere near the "public"
>> theft-money spent on such "science" propaganda.
>>
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